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>>jstrie+(OP)
From my point of view, this isn't programming. This is high level language tricks. It would be much more fun doing it in Assembly language, without any use of any kind of library, expect for input and output. This way student would have learnt so much more, about how integer are manipulated into cpu (just bits in base 2) doing smart math conversion to represent it in base 10. And why not generalise the problem to also compute the size in base 8, or any base N.

I hate those programming class just trying to teach python surface use, while in a programming class you have time to go deeper and learn about how python works, cause basically python use all str to binary and loop for doing all the work requested by the teacher, without student even being aware of how it does it !

>>netmon+cE
You think students should be writing assembly before they even know what a string is?

>>rozab+ME
Basic assembly is easy. (adding numbers, counting, basic comparisons, even basic branching, all you need is 12 or so instructions ).

In our collage, one of the first semester classes we were doing assembly on old Motorola 8 bit, the other one was Java.

people that never programmed before had more trouble with java, than assembler.